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“Based on research into the Picture Superiority Effect, when we read text alone, we are likely to remember only 10 percent of the information 3 days later. If that information is presented to us as text combined with a relevant image, we are likely to remember 65 percent of the information 3 days later.”

Ifs Remember Effects Information Research Percent Relevant Superiority

Author:John Medina

“Everything I do, I try to think, Okay, what are the ramifications? Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing - takes up 50 percent of all pesticide use.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Use Used Clothes Percent Okay Clothings Cotton Pesticides Ramifications

Author:Woody Harrelson

“Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?”

Ifs Years States Realizing Results Numbers Millions Economy College Degrees Percent Adults Increase Add Billions Income Arkansas College Degree

Author:Mike Huckabee

“...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.”

Ifs Thinking Success Winning Attitude Successful Plans Failing Percent Preparation Concrete

Author:Peter James

“You have to understand what they (pitchers) do. That's my job. You have to find a way to get them through the game if they're not feeling good. When everything is going good and they're feeling one-hundred percent, it's my job to keep them that way. And you know what? If I see something, I'm going to let them know.”

Ifs Knows Way Feelings Jobs Games Percent Hundred Feel Good What If Pitcher Not Feeling Good

Author:Jorge Posada

“Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.”

Ifs Next Attention Steps Focus Feet Percent Hundred Breathe Sole Next Steps

Book:Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Edition

Source: Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Edition

“I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Important Jobs Right Now Percent Presidential Damn Know Me Gangnam Style You Don't Know Me

Author:Chris Christie

“A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the sad conclusion that only a tiny minority, at most one percent, are capable of pulling it off. Heck, if Helen Young Hayes, Robert Sanborn, Julian Robertson, and the nation's largest pension funds can't get it right, what chance does John Q. Investor have?”

Ifs Believe Doe Young Nations Chance Capable Percent Investing Average Decades Tiny Conclusion Minorities Fund Investors Pulling Pension Helen

Author:William J. Bernstein

“motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.”

Ifs Hard Motivation Easy Involved Highest Percent Tasks Probability Get Involved

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Doe Bigs Three Company Player Depends Succeed Ten Percent Determine Great People Big Companies

Author:Steve Jobs

“Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.”

Ifs Should Trying I Can Hard Dies Percent Flying Flames Flags Cliffs

Author:Ronald Reagan

“There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.”

Ifs Life Different Kids Life Is Mother Levels Poverty Millions Percent Dollars Welfare Extras Cents Single Mother Working Women

Author:Patricia Arquette

“Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.”

Source: Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World

“If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.”

Ifs Should Persons Wealth Pay Rich Taxes Percent Charity Rich Person

Author:George Soros

“If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.”

Ifs Two Use Problem Care Cases Childhood Cost Percent Thirds Medical Primaries Expenses Curves Competitors Comprehensive Obesity Reconcile Charging Childhood Obesity Primary Care

Author:William J. Clinton

“During the first campaign, one of my jobs as my husband's spouse was to travel around the country and really listen to women. There were voices that were new to me: the voices of military spouses, many of them women, and veterans.... I was overwhelmed by their challenges, and the notion that we as a country don't even know that these women exist, because we live in a country where one percent of the population protects the rights and freedoms of the other 99 percent of us. I thought that if I had the opportunity to serve as First Lady, I was going to use this platform to be their voice.”

“Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for clothing. What would it mean if we all consumed 20 percent less? It would be catastrophic. It would mean 20 percent less jobs, 20 percent less taxes, 20 percent less money for schools, doctors, roads. The global economy would collapse.”

Ifs Needs Mean Doe Would Be School Jobs Economy Taxes Percent Doctors Everyday Nine Clothings Collapse Ninety Consumed Global Economy Ninety Nine Hairdresser Everyday Things

Author:Karl-Johan Persson

“A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.”

Ifs Matter Bigs Three Actors Differences Lines Missing Fine Percent Painful Good Actors Fine Lines Ferrari Chevy Cylinders Racehorses

Author:Christopher Walken

“Boosie is like the Lebron James when it comes to rapping, so you know if he feels it he's going in, and he gives 100 percent.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Percent Rap Give 100 Percent Boosie

Author:B-Real

“If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Two Talking Magic Percent Eight Ninety Ninety Eight

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.”

Ifs Trying Years Hands Funny Remember Science Forget Half Technology Percent Seconds

Author:Tom Duff

“If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences.”

People Ifs Doe Government Courses Nations Deals Politician Taxes Percent Consequence Method Available Income Taxation Deficit Down The Road Borrowing Indirect

Author:Milton Friedman

“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.”

Ifs Years Country Grows Poor Half Talking Moral Percent Female Argument Population Arguing Finance Faster Ministers Harness Poor Countries

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.”

Ifs Men Humor Funny Gay Ten Percent Twenties Chosen Chinese Knees Odds Free Time

Author:Bo Burnham

“If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.”

Ifs Given Company Rights Influence Percent Majority Granted Indian Reaching Unfair

Author:Tulsi Tanti

“But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Political Politics Challenges Wealth Risk Land Percent Serving Rebel Serving Others

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks Children Bigs Care Earth Christian Dies Left Numbers Millions Conditions Truth Is Disease Percent Add Slave Billions Statistics Glances Hiv Needy Horrific Number 2

Author:Katie Davis

“If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Said Done Would Be Care Careers Advice Easier Percent Publishing Easier Said Than Done

Author:Andre Dubus

“Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Looks Real Grows Economy Percent Blow Israel Iran Quarters Probability

Author:Steve Forbes

“I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.”

Ifs Men Mean Lost Wealth Half Watches Couple Percent Dollars Billions Budgets Modest Expenditures

Author:Ted Turner

“You need to know everything and feel 100 percent safe so that you can live and breathe in a role and so that you feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things and being bold. If you don't feel comfortable, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Trying Wells Kind Roles Environment Risk Safe Comfortable Percent Breathe New Things Scenarios Taking Risks Trying New Things

Author:Nina Dobrev

“You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.”

People Ifs Knows Want Trying Courses Simple Audience Percent Crowds

Author:Judd Apatow

“If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.”

Ifs Believe Matter Interest Lines Chance Support Groups Lows Percent Average Organized Flats Zero Voters Elites Probability Interest Groups

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.”

Ifs Giving Said Lying President Views Honest Willing Office Percent

Author:Joe Biden

“Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.”

Ifs Sometimes Running Effort Huge Percent Difficulty Impact Details Minors

Author:Michael Schumacher

“Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan.”

People Ifs Ends Millions Wise Plans Higher Thousand Percent Gains Yeah Math More Money Percentages

Author:Ted Cruz

“Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.”

Ifs Shows Taxes Percent Killing Details Flats Deficit Killing It Flat Tax Ben Carson

Author:Kevin Drum

“Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Long Two Sometimes Technology Havens Wind Tomorrow Percent Decided Congress Nonsense Two Years Electricity New Technology Grids Lag Wind Power

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population. So if you were ever going to have an election, then the Shia would take over.”

People Ifs Moments Benefits Percent Decided Election Population Saddam Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.”

Ifs Body Would Be Students Percent University Grades Asian Selected American Universities

Author:Paul Achleitner

“If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.”

Ifs World Way Roles Team Grew Percent Cups Brazil World Cup National Team Adidas

Author:Herbert Hainer

“The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.”

Ifs Country Products Percent Economics West Collapse Economist Gross

Book:The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.”

Ifs Needs Enough Facts Grows Growth Focus Percent Aspect India Ships Chinese Indian Goods Manufacturing Delivery

Author:Arjuna Mahendran

“If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.”

Ifs Years Problem Order Grows Growth Percent Credit Stable Gdp

Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”

Ifs Failing Policy Fame Percent Baseball Halls Foreign Policy Hitting Hall Of Fame

Author:Robert Kagan

“If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Humans Has Beens Said Half Percent Something New Ninety Human History New You

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you want a candidate who agrees with you 100 percent of the time, I'll give you a suggestion: Go home and look in the mirror. You are the only person you agree with 100 percent of the time. You'll always know who I am, you'll always know what I believe and you'll always know where I stand.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Believe Looks Persons Home I Believe Percent Mirrors Agree Who I Am Candidates Suggestions

Author:Chris Christie

“Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.”

People Ifs Should Government Would Be Fighting Numbers Military Percent Dare Jail Powerless Refusal Large Numbers Military Service

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“The key thing about any fund is to make sure its expenses are low. You know, if you look at the funds in your plan and you see that they're all charging 1.5 and 2 percent,you've gota bad plan.”

Ifs Knows Looks Plans Keys Lows Percent Fund Expenses Charging Key Things

Author:William J. Bernstein

“In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.”

Ifs Two Facts Cutting Week Percent Two Weeks Liver

Author:Sangeeta N. Bhatia

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